Hi Bob!
>I would imagine that any general use free public news server will be
>swamped and very difficult to get into.
This is what I keep hearing too. I found a fellow's web page where he
keeps a list of publicly accessable servers, but you have to email him
to get the really good ones that haven't been swamped... I'll try this
and let you folks know.
>If you just want to test the software out, I would suggest trying out
>one of the commercial support news servers such as microsoft
><news://msnews.microsoft.com> or Borland <news://forums.borland.com>.
>All the groups available will be support or announcement groups, but
>you will be able to test your setup.
Thanks, this is useful. I'll pass it along to the administrator who's
working on this.
>How many sources does your ISP get news from? It sounds like just
>MCI. They might want to look at setting up links to exchange news
>with a few other sites.
As far as I know, you're right - it's only MCI, via a node in
Vancouver. From what I hear, MCI changed their software or something,
and it was feeding us too fast for our server to accept them.
Something like that. Our upgrade is supposed to be done this weekend,
so I'm crossing my fingers that things will be working after that.
I'm still interested in other useable news servers though. Who knows
when ours might crap out again in the future. Thanks a lot for the
information.
Brian